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The Discovery and Study of B Mesons in the CLEO Experiment. Jeffrey D. Richman University of California, Santa Barbara. Symposium Celebrating CLEO and CESR, 31 May 2008. Outline. Terra incognita: Mapping the unknown territory of B physics in the CLEO I era
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The Discovery and Study of B Mesons in the CLEO Experiment Jeffrey D. Richman University of California, Santa Barbara Symposium Celebrating CLEO and CESR, 31 May 2008
Outline • Terra incognita: Mapping the unknown territory of B physics in the CLEO I era • CLEO II & CLEO II.V: the right stuff • The march of the penguins • The elegant simplicity of semileptonic decays • The triumph of hadronic decays • The success of the CLEO program as a scientific enterprise My apologies for not covering all the important measurements and papers. I had to leave out a lot of them!
Terra Incognita: Mapping the New Territory of B Physics in the CLEO I Era [1977: discovery of Y states at FNAL] courtesy Karl Berkelman
Y(1S), Y(2S), Y(3S), and... discovery of the Y(4S)! (1980) large decay width s(Y(4S)) vs. s(continuum) “Evidence for New Flavor Production at the Y(4S)” (1981) Y(4S) as a fountain of BB pairs can study weak decays! Inclusive single-lepton final state as signature of weak decay; issues of continuum background & event shape variables; off-resonance running Inclusive properties of B Decay Critical milestone: observation of fully reconstructed hadronic decays (1983) Physics themes of the early CLEO I era
1.09 pb-1 (scan) s (nb)vs. ECM (GeV) Scan 10.46—10.64 GeV • Mass: M(1S)+(1112 +/- 5) MeV M(4S) = (10572 +/- 5 MeV) PDG: M(4S) = (10579.4 +/ 1.2 MeV) • Width: G = (19.9 +/- 5.5 +/- 5 ) MeV • s(res)/s(non-res) = 1/3 • Event shape: more spherical than jet- like; R2 used from the beginning! ECM R2<0.3
2.5 pb-1 (scan) 76 electron events total! Predicted spectrum assuming D*en/Den =1 pe > 1 GeV/c ECM
Inclusive properties of B decays (1981-1983) • Decay of b-flavored Hadrons to Single-Muon and Dimuon Final States (1981) • Decay of B mesons into Charged and Neutral Kaons (1982) • Charged-Particle Multiplicities in B-Meson Decay (1982) • Semileptonic Decay of B Mesons (1983) • Ruling out Exotic Models of b Quark Decay (1983) • Observation of Exclusive Decay Modes of b-flavored Mesons (1983) • D0 spectrum from B-Meson Decay (1983) • Observation of Baryons in B-Meson Decay (1983) PRL 51, 634 (1983) f sideband
40.7 pb-1 “Until now, the b-flavored mesons themselves had not been found. Here we report that discovery.” Signal region D0 sidebands M(B0) 5274.2+/-1.9+/-2.0 MeV 5279.3+/-0.7 MeV PDG ‘06 M(B-) 5270.8+/-2.3+/-2.0 MeV 5279.1+/-0.5 MeV PDG ‘06 2 evts 5 evts 5 evts 6 evts wrong-sign combs Branching fractions a little high.
40.8 pb-1 (on res) • B(BD0X) = (0.8+/-0.2 +/- 0.2) • used B(D0 K-p+)=(3.0 +/- 0.6)% • update to B(D0 K-p+)=(3.8+/-0.07)% • B(BD0X)=(0.63+/-0.2+/-0.2) • PDG’06 (0.64+/-0.03) M(K-p+) vs. p on-res continuum
Beyond the basics Observation of BFX PRL 56, 2781 (1986) • Limit on the bu coupling from Semileptonic B Decay (1984) • Upper Limit on Flavor-Changing Neutral-Current Decays of the b Quark (1984) • Two-Body Decays of B Mesons (1984) • Inclusive Decay of B Mesons into Charged D* (1985) • Observation of the Decay B0D*+r- (1985) • Decay By X (1985) • Inclusive f production in B-Meson Decay (1986) • Observation of the Decay BFX (1986) • Inclusive B-Meson Decay to Charm (1987) • Limits on Rare Exclusive Decays of B Mesons (1987) on-res+off-res on-res, p<2.5 GeV off-res, p<2.5 GeV 10
117 pb-1 on-resonance below-resonance subtracted Very relevant selection of modes!
Into the era of B0 – B0 mixing ARGUS 79.5 pb-1 103 pb-1 • Limits on B0-B0 Mixing and tB0/tB+ (1987) • Branching Ratios of B Mesons to K+, K-, and K0/K0 (1987) • Improved Upper limit on Flavor-Changing Neutral-Current Decays of the b Quark (1987) • Evidence for Charmed Baryons in B-Meson Decay ((1987) • G(buln)/G(bcln) from the End Point of the Lepton Momentum Spectrum in Semileptonic B Decay (1987) • Exclusive Decays and Masses of the B Mesons (1987) • B0-B0 mixing at the Y(4S) (1989) Argus ARGUS, Phys. Lett. B 192, 245 (1987) 212 pb-1 Time-integrated mixing rate: 21%
212 pb-1; 240 K BB Big challenge: removing contribution from secondary leptons.
Observation of B0-B0 Mixing in CLEO using Dileptons Like-sign dileptons Unlike-sign dileptons (For unlike sign, need to subtract contribution from B+B- events.)
BABARMixing asymmetry data (raw) T=2p/Dm D<1 due to mistags tB=1.53 ps run out of events at long lifetimes
Searching for bu...and finding it! • Search for Charmless Decays Bpp p and Bpp pp (1989) • Search for bu Transitions in Exclusive Hadronic B-Meson Decays (1989) • A Search for Exclusive Penguin Decays of B Mesons (1989) • Study of the decay BD*+ l n (1989) • Observation of B-Meson Semileptonic Decays to Noncharmed Final States (1990) • Exclusive and Inclusive Decays of B Mesons into Ds Mesons (1990) • Exclusive and Inclusive Semileptonic Decays of B Mesons to D Mesons (1991) • Inclusive and Exclusive Decays of B Mesons to Final States Including Charm and Charmonium Mesons (1992)
212 pb-1 • Major 1st step in the long struggle to measure |Vub|. • Inclusive measurement...in very limited region of phase space. • Continuum background suppression & determination crucial • If |Vub|=0, SM would predict no CP violation. scaled off res
Loops in B decays: probe high mass scales! cited 560 times 1.377 fb-1 8 events 3 events 2 events HFAG
cited 768 times 2.01 fb-1 not all that rare! B-reconstruction analysis Event-shape analysis Y(4S) data Y(4S) data scaled off-resonance scaled off-resonance background- subtracted data
Summary of B(BXsg) Thanks to Henning Flaecher! CLEO Phys.Rev.Lett.87,251807(2001) BR(B→Xsγ) = (3.29± 0.53) 10-4 (9.1 fb-1) Belle Semi Phys.Lett.B511:151(2001) BR(B→Xsγ) = (3.29± 0.53) 10-4 (5.8 fb-1) BaBar SemiPhys.Rev.D72:052004(2005) BR(B→Xsγ) = (3.29+0.62-0.50) 10-4 (81.5 fb-1) BaBar Incl Phys.Rev.Lett.97:171803(2006) BR(B→Xsγ) = (3.92± 0.56) 10-4 (81.5 fb-1) BaBar Full Phys.Rev.D77:051103(2008) BR(B→Xsγ) = (3.91± 1.11) 10-4 (210 fb-1) BELLE Incl (A. Limosani, Moriond EW08) BR(B→Xsγ) = (3.37± 0.41) 10-4 (605 fb-1) HFAG Average 08 (preliminary) BR(B→Xsγ) = (3.52± 0.25) 10-4 HFAG average: 7% experimental uncertainty huge theoretical effort: SM predictions: Misiak et al. (hep-ph/0609232) Becher et. al. (hep-ph/0610067) Andersen et al. (hep-ph/0609250) Very good agreement between experiments and analysis methods! BR(B→Xsγ) (10-4)
Radiative penguins: The Next Generation! BABAR, PRL 98, 151802 (2007) signal + bkgnd B+r+g bkgnd signal B0r0g
Yet another generation: electroweak penguins! Photon penguin Z penguin W+W- box • BaBar, Belle, CDF have observedBKl+l- and BK*l+l- • Rarest observed B decay: • Kinematic distributions sensitive to new physics (AFB vs. q2)
1.37 fb-1 30
BK p: Direct CP Violation fromInterference between Penguin and Tree Diagrams BaBar, PRL 93, 131801, 2004 Bkgd symmetric! penguin “pollution” in Bp+p-
from Steve Olsen’s talk at Aspen Winter Conf., 2008 Direct CPV in B Kp decays World Averages: Acp(K+p-) = -0.097±0.012 5s difference! Acp(K+p0) = +0.047±0.026 HEPAP Meeting
Simple is beautiful: semileptonic B decays Understanding dynamics: form factors, HQE params, quark masses CKM matrix elements
924 pb-1 • Quantitative statement about size of |Vub| • Model dependence studied; part of long, long struggle. B Xcln + continuum “strict” contin suppression contin. Altarelli model R2 < 0.3
...and with a factor of 10 more data 9.13 fb-1 Total background, including B decay (histogram) On-resonance data (points) Scaled off-res data (shaded region) Background-subtracted, efficiency corrected spectrum Histogram: BXuln spectrum predicted from measured BXsg spectrum
|Vub| Inclusive Measurements: HFAG Averages Theory framework: BLNP - B.O. Lange, M. Neubert and G. Paz, Phys. Rev. D72:073006 (2005) Good or Bad? The full breakdown of the uncertainties on the average |Vub| above is (all errors quoted in percent): positive errors: +2.0stat +2.3exp +1.3b2c model +1.4b2u model +7.0HQE param +0.5SF func +0.7sub SF +3.6matching +1.3WA = +8.8tot negative errors: -2.0stat -2.2exp -1.2b2c model -1.4b2u model -5.8HQE param -0.5SF func -0.7sub SF -3.3matching -1.3WA = -7.7tot
The Heavy Quark Effective Theory Revolution TopCite 1000+ (cited 1576 times) • Weak Transition Form-Factors Between Heavy Mesons, N. Isgur and M.B. Wise, Phys. Lett. B237, 527 (1990). Cited 1458 times. • Semileptonic B and D Decays in the Quark Model, N. Isgur, D. Scora, G. Grinstein, and M. Wise, Phys. Rev. D39, 799, 1989. Cited 1114 times. 3 papers: 4000 citations
Find your favorite place in the Dalitz plot. final-state D* at rest V-A: more points on R- than L-side 40
2.4 fb-1 Confirmed by BaBar, PRD 74, 692004 (2006)
gentle fall-off of form factor soft p+
The Triumph of Hadronic Decays Hadronic B decays have ultimately provided the most compelling test of the CKM framework through CP-violating effects. We need interfering amplitudes to do this. CLEO laid much of the foundation for this work. CKM fit using angles only
The “Big B Paper” 0.89 fb-1 203 cites • Huge number of branching fractions • Color-suppressed decays • Polarization & factorization studies • Resonant substructure
B decays involving charmonium golden mode for sin2b
3.1 fb-1 contributing mode for constraining g
A path to g color suppressed How can we get interference? Need D0 f and D0 f.(For example, f =KS0p+p-.) Some observations: • Uses charged B decays; method is based on a direct CP asymmetry. Issues: strong phase d, rB=|A(bu)/A(bc)| =0.1-0.2 • Uses tree diagrams: no loops/mixing diagrams, no penguin/new physics issues. Together with |Vub|, gives CKM test with trees only.
9.13 fb-1 contributing mode for constraint on CKM angle a
9.13 fb-1 sin2b with penguins!